Entries for the tag ‘Hudibras’
A mock-heroic narrative poem by Samuel Butler, published in the aftermath of the English Civil War, and satirising Puritanism and the Parliamentarian cause from a Royalist perspective
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- 21 May 1785: Aged 15, William Butterworth of Leeds runs away to sea and joins a slaver
- 6 November 1786: William Butterworth of Leeds witnesses the “grand pageant” celebrating the demise in July of Duke Ephraim, Efik king of Old Calabar
- 26 February 1787: William Butterworth of Leeds arrives at Grenada (West Indies) from Calabar (West Africa) on the Hudibras (Liverpool) with the survivors of a cargo of 360 slaves
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